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8th Q4 Final Review

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped slaves from the South...

a)

Social Network

b)

slave railroad

c)

underground railroad

d)

telegraph communication

2.

publisher of "The Liberator", an anti-slavery newspaper advocating for the end of slavery

a)

William Bucknell

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

John Brown

d)

Mr. Garrison

3.

famous conductor of the Underground Railroad...wanted dead or alive in the south...was a Union spy during the Civil War...

a)

Francis Scott Key

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Nat Turner

4.

region that was almost completely dependent on slavery

a)

North

b)

West

c)

Pacific Northwest

d)

South

5.

In the IL Senate race in 1858, Lincoln accused Democratic Stephen Douglas of wanting to...

a)

bring back slavery to the North

b)

divorce his wife

c)

make alcohol sales illegal

d)

spread & expand slavery to the west

6.

the bloody conflict in Kansas over slavery just before the Civil War...

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Kansas City Chiefs Rebellion

c)

Bleeding Kansas

d)

Dorothy's Revenge

7.

prohibited northerners from helping runaway slaves

a)

Clause Against Slavery

b)

Fugitive Salve Act of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

8.

May 1856, 5 pro-slavery men were slain at...

a)

Pottawatomie Massacre

b)

John Brown's Raid

c)

Battle at Lawrenceburg

d)

Atlanta Bombing

9.

Why did Stephen Douglas introduce the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

To expand the railroad in the west, and connect it to IL

b)

to end slavery

c)

to expand slavery to Hawaii

d)

to bring factories to the South

10.

attempted to start a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry...executed for treason

a)

John Smith

b)

John Rolfe

c)

John Adams

d)

John Brown

11.

believed that a "House divided against itself cannot stand"

a)

Stephen Douglas

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Mary Todd Lincoln

d)

Abraham Lincoln

12.

region that was outraged by the results of the election of 1860...

a)

North

b)

West

c)

Pacific Northwest

d)

South

13.

First state to secede from the Union after Lincoln winning the election of 1860

a)

Maine

b)

Florida

c)

Illinois

d)

South Carolina

14.

Book about slavery that Southerners mostly hated and Northerners widely acclaimed

a)

The Bible

b)

The Giver

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

15.

event that stated the Civil War

a)

attack on Ft. Sumpter

b)

Harper's Ferry Raid

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Dred Scott decision

16.

Lincoln thought secession by the South was...

a)

unethical

b)

illegal & unconstitutional

c)

forgivable

d)

necessary

17.

which of the following was not part of the Union's Anaconda Plan

a)

Capture Richmond

b)

Control the Mississippi

c)

Control of the coastline/Atlantic

d)

Capture and execute Jefferson Davis

18.

slave states that did not join the Confederacy

a)

Midwest states

b)

Border states

c)

Mason-Dixon states

d)

Seesaw states

19.

Lincoln made the war about ending slavery with the...

a)

Second Inaugural Address

b)

Passing the 13th Amendment

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

Telegraph Declaration

20.

Region with lower population and a focus on cotton production

a)

North

b)

West

c)

Pacific Northwest

d)

South

21.

Region with largest population and a focus on industry and urbanization

a)

North

b)

West

c)

Pacific Northwest

d)

South

22.

early Civil War battle outside of Washington D.C. that indicated a long and brutal war

a)

Attack at Ft. Sumpter

b)

Perryville

c)

Gettysburg

d)

1st Bull Run

23.

battle that gave the Union control of the Mississippi

a)

Battle at Atlanta

b)

Battle at Vicksburg

c)

Battle at Chickamauga

d)

Battle at Gettysburg

24.

primary goal of the Union Army in the West...

a)

Capture New Orleans

b)

Free all the slaves in Mississippi

c)

Control the Mississippi River

d)

Control the coastline in the Gulf of Mexico

25.

President of the Confederacy

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

General Bragg

c)

Robert E Lee

d)

Jefferson Davis

26.

President of the Union during the Civil War

a)

James Buchanan

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Jefferson Davis

27.

Who would have said, "Rich man's war, but a poor man's fight!"

a)

draft protester in the Union

b)

southern sympathizer

c)

slave owner

d)

Abraham Lincoln

28.

Who would have been more likely to say this, "These freed slaves are gonna work for peanuts, and I'm gonna lose my job!"

a)

Indentured servant

b)

southern fisherman

c)

northern factory worker

d)

business owner

29.

How did Lincoln respond to dissent, and people speaking against the war publicly?

a)

he executed them

b)

he banned them from entering the white house

c)

he forced them to work in labor camps

d)

he suspended habeas corpus

30.

Battle where Lee launched his last attack on the North

a)

Battle of 2nd Bull Run

b)

Appomattox Courthouse

c)

Battle at Chickamuaga

d)

Battle of Gettysburg

31.

Lincoln eventually joined the abolitionist movement late in the war, but originally all he wanted was to...

a)

preserve his fruits

b)

preserve his seat in the oval office

c)

preserve the Declaration of Independence

d)

preserve the Union, and the unity of the nation at all costs

32.

Lee was surrounded and out of supplies, so he surrendered at...

a)

Logansport

b)

Indiana District Courthouse

c)

Appomattox Courthouse

d)

Richmond

33.

The Civil War was more destructive (destroying homes, roads, businesses, hospitals, etc.) in which region?

a)

North

b)

West

c)

Pacific Northwest

d)

South

34.

What was the southern strategy of the war?

a)

To capture D.C. and take the North as a unified slave nation

b)

To turn the northern soldiers into slaves, and publicly execute all northern politicians.

c)

To defeat the North in all naval battles, and pressure the North through economic sanctions and coastal blockades of NYC and Boston.

d)

to outlast the North, & fight a defensive war

35.

Country the South targeted with their "Cotton Diplomacy"

a)

United Kingdom

b)

Union North

c)

Mexico

d)

France

36.

marking the Bloodiest day of the Civil War... this battle crushed McClellan's offensive spirit even though the Union won.

a)

Battle of 1st Bull Run

b)

Battle of Gettysburg

c)

Battle Antietam

d)

Battle of Perryville

37.

13th Amendment ended...

a)

slavery

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

The Civil War

d)

Consumption of Alcohol

38.

After the Civil War, who wanted to reunite the nation as quickly and painlessly as possible, giving the South light punishments for leaving the Union?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Ulysses S Grant

d)

Andrew Johnson

39.

Main goal of Reconstruction

a)

reunite the nation, and admit the southern states by into the Union

b)

punish the South for leaving the Union

c)

build all the old slave ports exactly as they were before the Civil War

d)

give blacks complete equality

40.

Whose strategy included the decimation of Georgia to cripple the southern economy as he marched to the sea?

a)

Robert E Lee

b)

Ulysses S Grant

c)

Ambrose Burnside

d)

William Tecumseh Sherman

41.

court case that made segregation (separate, but equal) constitutional

a)

Dredd Scott v. Sandford

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Loving v. Virginia

42.

laws passed to limit the liberties of African Americans

a)

Slave Codes

b)

Source Codes

c)

Code Red

d)

Black Codes

43.

Redeemers were...

a)

Northerners who tried to bring back slavery

b)

Rich bankers who claimed large pieces of land vacated in the South during the war

c)

Freed slaves who sought revenge against their plantation owners and overseers

d)

Democrats who reinstated their power in the South during the process of Reconstruction (continuing institutional racism)

44.

The amendment that gave African American men the right to vote

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

45.

Which one of these things would the Ku Klux Clan be strongly against?

a)

blacks voting

b)

segregation

c)

violence

d)

racism

46.

Why did President Andrew Johnson get impeached in 1868?

a)

He declared war on North Vietnam without Congressional approval

b)

Had an affair with Monica, and lied to the press about it

c)

built a huge border wall without Congressional Approval

d)

fired a cabinet member without Senate approval